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Show AMK.K1CAN FOKK AND ITS MINES. American Fork canyon is noted for its grand scerery, its well-kept toll road, good trout fishing and its famous mines of silver im1 i.ld. At its mouth and along the l...i.i.. ( li e boautiful river, which issues from it, some three or four thriving villages, thoir cozy cottngeshalf hidden by shrubbery and orchards, gladden glad-den the eye of the traveler, while, four or five miles away, Utah lake and basin make with the villages a most charming picture. In the background grand old mountains moun-tains rear their bare granite heads above the timber line, till at the highest point on "Aspinwall Peak" an altitude of over 11,0(K feet is reached. Utah lake and valley with its circling cluster of villages, its cultivated culti-vated fields extending on to the foothills, its large herds of fine horses and cattle, and its beautiful and varied fruit orchards, or-chards, surrounded by alpine mountains, moun-tains, down whose gorges tumble bright and beautiful trout streams, altogether make up the garden of Utah and the paradise of this intermountain region. Along the head of the canyon above nnmed, are great mines from whoso rich treasures, fortunes were extracted some years ago when the mining campaign in Utah first opened. Lawsuits, mismanagement, misman-agement, faulting of veins and the liko for a time hindered the output of ore nnd bullion, but tho coming season is full of promise for a revival of interest inter-est and of profitable mining enterprises enter-prises in this great mining district. In the meantime, with an instinctive, alertness characteristic of mombers of the craft who are always found at the front and within reach of a printer's outfit, out-fit, a wide awake woekly paper, the Independent, In-dependent, has started at American Fork and promises to publish to the world the superior mining and agricultural agricul-tural advantages of this portion of Utuh. The paper has selected a good center of operation, and when such men as Rowland Row-land i Aspinwall of New York, with Judge Buskin. L. E. Holdon, Col. Shaughnessy, the Chipmans, of the Utah contingent, nnd Senator Plumb of Kansas, who, with others of equal enterprise, enter-prise, are interested in those mines, take hold and push things there, we shall oxpeut to hoar of lively times. |